Annie Haeger

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Annie Haeger
Annie Haeger in Haifa.jpg
Haeger in 2015
Personal information
Full nameAnne Haeger
NationalityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Born (1990-02-05) February 5, 1990 (age 34)
East Troy, Wisconsin, U.S.
Height5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Weight128 lb (58 kg)
Sailing career
Class Dinghy
Club
College team Burgee of Boston College.svg   Boston College

Anne Haeger (born February 5, 1990) is an American sailor who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and joined the Canada SailGP Team as a Strategist in September 2023.

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Life

Haeger was born in East Troy, Wisconsin in 1990. She started sailing when she was five and she went to Lake Forest High School. [1] She joined as a sailing team with Briana Provancha. They both graduated from Boston College in Massachusetts together in 2012, [2] where Haeger was named ICSA Women’s College Sailor of the Year in 2011. Annie was also named US Sailor of the Year in 2015.

She and Provancha won their place at the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Palma de Mallorca which recognised their competition over the previous three years. [2]

She and Provancha appeared in the Women's 470 event in the 2016 Summer Olympics. [3]

Annie joined the Canada SailGP team as a Strategist in September 2023.

Private life

In 2018 she married Canadian Olympic sailor Luke Ramsay. [4]

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References

  1. "Annie Haeger". USSailing.com. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Haeger and Provancha headed to Olympics". bceagles.com. April 10, 2016. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
  3. "Annie Haeger: Meet Team USA Rio 2016 Olympics". SI.com. Archived from the original on August 1, 2016. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
  4. "Luke Ramsay: Giving it a go". Scuttlebutt Sailing News. January 21, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.